CMOS / SCMO *Awards
presented at the 46th CMOS
Congress,

Montreal QC, May 30
and 31, 2012

* CMOS
Prizes are normally for achievements in the calendar year prior to the
congress
year and are designated as awards for that previous year.

CMOS
Scholarships
and Scholarship Supplements are awarded for the academic year following
the congress.

CMOS Fellows are members so designated at the time
of the award and henceforth entitled to call themselves Fellows of the
Society as long as membership is maintained.

If award recipients or designates were
present,
linked names will lead to a photo of their award presentation.

Part One - CMOS
Prizes and Awards

CMOS
Fellow
Announced /
Nouveau
Membre émérite

Douw G. Steyn, UBC for his
outstanding contributions to our understanding of ozone pollution,
especially in the Lower Fraser Valley region, for his exemplary
contributions to CMOS and his extensive efforts towards improving
educational and administrative programs in atmospheric science.

President's
Prize / Prix du
président

Nathan Gillett, Environment
Canada
and University of Victoria, for his pioneering work in the field of
climate change detection and attribution, culminating in the
influential paper, Attribution of
polar warming to human influence, published in Nature Geoscience
in 2008. In this paper, Dr. Gillett led a team of international
scholars in the discovery of an anthropogenic warming signal in both
the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Through the use of an elegant
application of optimal fingerprinting, he was able to show that the
warming in these polar regions was directly attributable to human
activities. This has led to the realization that we can now detect
human-induced regional warming on every continent of the globe.

David Welch,
Kintama Research Services Ltd., for his three decades of research
dedicated to understanding the sea life of salmon using innovative
data-gathering techniques with special reference to acoustic arrays.
The resulting data have been correlated with oceanographic conditions
and climate change to obtain a much deeper understanding of how the two
sciences of fisheries and oceanography are synthesized as a single
discipline of Fisheries Oceanography. He has been the leader of a major
initiative to track a wide variety of fish species’ movements around
the Pacific, the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) program. This
program has provided a core research platform for a wide range of
scientists to address questions concerning fish movement and survival
that would be otherwise prohibitively expensive for one researcher to
undertake alone.

Michael Eby, University of
Victoria,
for his sustained contributions towards the development of the UVic
Earth System Climate Model, his support of users of the model
internationally, and his contributions towards international
assessments and model intercomparison projects.

Ford Doherty,
Environment Canada, for his significant contributions to operational
forecasting, particularly through his development of the operational
archive system, Jervis, which has proven to be an indispensable tool
for forecasters. His subsequent development of a weather event
simulator (WxEds) has allowed forecasters to retrospectively re-run
historical weather events in a ‘real-time’ mode. This application
continues to be one of the most sought-after training applications by
operational meteorologists.

Thomas J. Duck, Dalhousie
University, for his outstanding volunteer service to atmospheric
science, and particularly to the Canadian ozone monitoring and research
programs. He has led a vocal and effective campaign to attract
public attention to Canadian atmospheric research and the value of the
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science. His extensive
interaction with the media has focused the public’s attention, not only
on the need to maintain ozone monitoring in Canada, but also on
atmospheric climate change and the value of science in general, in its
role of informing public policy and decision making.

Patrick Sheese, University of
Toronto, for his publication, Nighttime
nitric oxide densities in the Southern hemisphere mesosphere - lower
thermosphere, published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2011.
This research builds on a series of his papers describing his novel
methods to retrieve atmospheric temperature and chemistry data using
the Canadian OSIRIS (Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imaging System).
His research has made a significant contribution to our understanding
of mesospheric-lower thermospheric state variables. Camille Viatte
accepted the award for Patrick Sheese.

Eric Oliver, Dalhousie
University,
for his outstanding Ph. D. dissertation at Dalhousie University, which
has led to three refereed publications in top-tier journals. Each paper
has addressed the very significant issue of the Madden Julian
Oscillation (MJO), and its effects on various ocean basins.

Rodica Lindenmaier, University of
Toronto, for her outstanding Ph. D. dissertation at the University of
Toronto, which represents a significant research contribution at the
Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka,
Nunavut. Her dissertation, addressing science questions within the
context of the CANDAC (Canadian Network for the Detection of
Atmospheric Change) and focusing on measuring stratospheric composition
to improve our understanding of the processes controlling the Arctic
ozone budget, has led to at least four refereed publications in
top-tier journals.

Mark Madryga, Global TV BC and
CKNW
Radio, for consistently Outstanding Radio and Television presentations.
His extraordinary talents, such as his knowledge of local effects and
ability to communicate the uncertainty in developing weather patterns,
combined with his commitment to educating the public, are apparent in
his presentations.

Part Two -
Scholarships
/ Bourses d'études

(CMOS
Scholarships
and Scholarship Supplements are awarded for the academic year following
the congress.)

Michael Optis, University of
Victoria, for his studies on the physical processes that control
vertical wind shear in the bottom few hundred metres of the atmosphere
with the primary objective of improving wind power prediction.

Part Four - Non
CMOS Awards / Honneurs pas SCMO

Louis Fortier,
Professor of Oceanography at Laval University and Director of
ArcticNet. Dr. Fortier was nominated for his incredible
contribution to international collaboration and mentoring
interdisciplinary scientists, including through ArcticNet; work that
has contributed significantly to the further development of
multidisciplinary ocean science.

John Gyakum, Professor of the
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University.

For over 30 years, Dr. Gyakum has been a leading
member
in meteorological research and teaching in Canada and internationally.
He has been extremely effective in research, in teaching undergraduate
and graduate students and outreach to the general public - all while
chairing the department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill
University.

John has authored or co-authored on more than 90
refereed publications. Collectively, these papers advanced our
scientific understanding of oceanic cyclones considerably and in turn
resulted in significant improvements in operational forecasting of
oceanic cyclones and extreme events.